okay so it's time to start with all the work and
we are going to start with our port engine
captain talk to us what are we gonna be doing today?
today on this beautiful day
hot
we're gonna start with our port engine
we're gonna do oil change we're gonna drain the coolant put new coolant
we're gonna do the impeller check the belt see if we change the belt
and we're gonna do barnacle buster on the heat exchanger
we're gonna let it run clean the heat exchanger and yeah and that's it
we should be done with this engine in about four hours four hours
Four hours?
six hours
really?
i don't know we'll see
we're Alejo and Andrea and we've been sailing the Caribbean for the past two years
as much as we wanted to continue exploring
we had to stop and bring our boat up to date with all the maintenance and sailboat work
what's up bro do you think only man can do this?
we have one week on the boatyard
and today is all about engine work
so this is something that they don't tell you when you're going to buy a boat and you think about sailing the caribbean
change of plans y'all we're gonna start with the starboard
oh wait that's not the port engine? did i say that was the port? i'm so confused now that we're not in the water
okay just kidding we're gonna change the plans we're starting with the starboard engine
because the impeller's on the port side so we're gonna start with the starboard
and then move on to the port
yeah we're gonna try to see how how to change the impeller first
this side is easier so we'll do this side first and then
alrighty people we're removing the oil filter
okay so I'm going to do my first engine work for the first time in my life
because i've never even been in here before
but Alejo just taught me how to get the oil out of the starboard engine
so now i'm going to do the same thing on the port side engine
he's trying to teach me as much as we can about the engines
because i don't understand anything at all
but when we started living on the boat i didn't understand anything about solar and now I get the basics
so we have the oil it is now pumping out officially
he's changing the oil
um we just got some oil filters
and then Alejo's trying to remove the impeller
but it's really hard
really hard
your next job?
sure
so this time andreas doing the hard work
she's changing the oil filter
empowered women
we ruled the world
so this is the first time in my entire life
i don't even know. you could have asked me to check the oil and I had no idea how to do that
anyway oh okay with this
so just in case you're wondering it's about 100 fahrenheit here
it is hot as hell
this boatyard doesn't get any breeze at all
so we are hot hot hot hot hot
so thank god we found the airbnb for the dogs because
i would have been worried that they would have had a heat stroke or something
okay so now we're going to check that we did fill up the oil thing
so take this out
um yep pretty good pretty good there was like a little line
here the first one the one like all the way to the tip is the minimum the other one is the maximum
aleja just taught me that so i'm teaching it to you guys
i removed the water impeller
this is the one i removed
it looks pretty good
so the reason i'm changing the impellers is because these ones are about two years old
and you're supposed to change them every like 500 hours or every year
and i didn't change them last time because it's pretty hard to get out
so i'm gonna be placing the new one
i'm gonna put a zip tie
so it's like makes it smaller
and then put some lubricant water-based
so it can slide a lot easier and it's not that hard
okay so alejo just took the impeller out of the starboard side
and now he's trying to find how to change the coolant on this engine
this is a Yanmar 4jh4-TE
so there's two there's one right this is the exhaust elbow and that's one so this one right here
and below under it, there's like the little nipple
where you connect the hose you can see it there
there's another one like right here so you connect a little tube open this and it drains the coolant
i just did the impeller the impeller is all the way in here
we started with the engine work first and i am so glad we did
because look at the mess everywhere
it's always yeah well always this is my first time but yeah it's a huge mess
um you get oil everywhere you get like dirt everywhere so
we're gonna put new coolant in
yeah because we don't know how old this coolant is
coolant it goes through a block and if the block gets rusty
then yeah it's good to change the coolant
so babe how often do you have to change the oil of the engines
we do it every 200 hours
okay and you also change the filter every time that you change the oil?
yes
every 200 hours
and then how often do you have to change the coolant ?
if you do it once a year
and how often do you have to change the impellers
every 500 hours or every year
is that supposed to be the color of the coolant?
like brown?
no that is because of the rust
oh coolant is bright green
now I remember is the same as the cars
yes
so there's bright green there's orange purple and you can't mix colors
oh you can't mix colors
no if you mix colors it becomes like a like play-doh
and it damages the engine
so if you want to mix colors make sure it's a coolant that you can mix colors
it says any colors
like that one?
like this one for example
what happened baby?
it's really hard
it's really hard when you don't have the proper tools
what tools do you need?
it's like a special bolt that you put on the impeller you just pull it out
you seem to be really sweaty right now
so this is something that they don't tell you when you're going to buy a boat and you think about sailing the caribbean
being super hot it's about 100 degrees fahrenheit
um being inside the engine room which is normally super cramped
hot as hell
and doing this kind of work which is not that pleasant
the impeller it's there
so there's four volts
so one right here two three and four up there
we remove this and the impeller is gonna be right there we just pull it out put a new one
and that's it so i'm gonna be removing that plate
hey guys so you can see here the impeller i just removed the cover
we need to start pulling from one side and then the other from one side and then the other
so we can get the impeller out it takes like 20 minutes super hard
to take it out but once we get it out it's pretty easy to put a new one
just put some lube a zip tie and you're good
one week later
but i don't know what to do
i got the impeller
what's up bro you think only men can do this
check out my muscles you dont even have those muscles
so this impeller it also looks good but we haven't changed it in two years
so yeah we're gonna put a new one
this is where the impeller goes
and so i'm just going to put this which has a little zip tie um put it in there and then you start pushing it in
but i can't record as i do that
and then i'll start removing the zip tie as i go
but i can't record and do that at same and time
so sorry guys just use your imagination this goes in there
alright guys so we already finished uh changing the impellers
we did the oil change
as you know and we turn and we removed the coolant
now we what we are doing is looking where the sea water goes in through the engines
um because we're going to run the barnacle buster
the same thing that we did on the air conditioners we're going to do the same thing on the engine
because since ocean water runs through the engines they get a lot of barnacles too
it's 5 30 p.m of day one of being at the boat yard
and we are are we finished with the barnacle buster in the port side
yeah
and we just uh finished with the barnacle buster in the port side
pretty tired it was a long day we've been doing it non-stop since
8 a.m
when we got holed out and now we are ready
we're almost finished ready to call it a day
we're gonna fix the boat a little bit because it's horrible messy everywhere
and that's it we're ready for day two of the boatyard
we will see you tomorrow
good morning
what's up people
say what's up people
what's up people
that's gonna become like our trademark we should trademark that
so it is day two of being at the boat yard
and today we are starting with stripping the paint
and we're gonna be taking the paint all the way down to the gel coat because
the last couple of months we have just been like losing layers of paint
that get all the way to the gel coat so we are left
oh my god this dog
sorry guys we're walking our dogs and echo poops like five times a day
and it's big poop
this is a 2008 boat which means that it's been over 10 years
that it's been like accumulating paint over paint over paint
just strip the paint all the way back to gelcoat
we're gonna do two layers of primer
and then two to three layers of anti-fouling we're gonna go with
A hard paint
and we'll see how it works out we already tried ablative
it didn't work too too well for us
because we wanted to last more than two years
so yeah we'll keep you guys posted
wow !!
you don't see any gray
that's the gelcoat?
yeah yeah yeah then sanded off real nice
it's coming out easy
yeah very easy
you wanna tell me what you're doing martin how is it why is it coming out so easy
well um i believe um what we're using right now is an assistant stripper uh-huh
and it's very very strong
okay
so so as you put it on yeah you give it 10 15 minutes and it comes up very easy and nice
and then after after that we um we go tape off and then start sanding the um
we are going to try to get as much as the red nd the blue
all right and then when we get down to this here
the red is our first layer after the gel coat ?
right right so um
when we when we get up the red
start to sand from there
okay
and then start washing all the boats
uh washing all the water line and um
and making preparation thing
so here you have the layers
right the first one is the the anti-fouling which is the blue one
right okay
then you have the other blue one right okay and then you have the red
and then you have the gel coat
right so which is a red the red is a primer
we must take off all the red
when we finish yeah we're gonna get it with a nice wash
okay and and get rid of all the stains
which are everything awful man
look at all those stains
we're gonna take it off
yep that's with acid right ?
take that over real nice things real nice
we'll clean all the windows for you and bring it back like
brand new boat man
sounds good thank you martin
you're welcome
we already had no anti-fouling here
so we already had that off here so all that what
had like a huge growth and you can see how the anti-fouling like falls off
and also the rudder here bad
baby can you explain to me what we have to do for the rudders
the bearings came loose so we have to lower the rudder
and then glue again the bearing
and we'll do like a little fiberglass and stick it back
put it back again
so how you notice that if your bearings are good or bad
you take rudder
and see this play
that's the bearing
okay
so you could go here and look
okay see the bearing
that is loose
so it's supposed to be super tight with zero movement no movement
uh so that's how you know you need to fix the rudders
so what do they do they remove the rudder ?
so they're gonna lower the rudder because they have to dig a hole
to be able to lower the rudder
yeah
dig a hole lower the rudder and then fix it put it back
so quick update
they have removed all this paint
it's now around two two o'clock they started at nine a.m
and this is two guys going for hours
so we're going back to the gel coat
we're gonna do
epoxy primer we're gonna do two coats and then
two to three coats of hard paint so be like tough
no osmosis
and on another note i was taking off the propellers
and i don't know if you guys remember the way the video in the bahamas
that our dinghy got caught in our port propeller
here's a piece of that thing and it's like stuck inside
and the propeller which i think is pretty bad news
it's like broken that piece broke off
so i don't know i'm gonna take it to a shop see what they say
and hopefully it's nothing too bad
they could just fix it or let me know if we could use it like this
yeah we'll see guys
you know when you haul out it's full of surprises
we didn't know we needed to do the bearings on the rudders too
we're gonna do that
they're gonna come dig a hole under the rudder so we can lower it
we're gonna try to drain the oil on the sail drives so we can remove the cone clutch
man oh man surprises
that happens mostly with haul outs when you haul out you get a little bit of surprises
as we haul out we find two unpleasant surprises on our boat
you know what they say
BOAT stands for bring out another thousand
and they weren't kidding
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